Fitbit - Versa Special Edition - Lavender Rose Gold

Put yourself on the fast track to better health with help from this lavender Fitbit Versa fitness tracker. Its built-in heart rate monitor ensures accurate workout tracking, and on-wrist notifications from a paired smart device keep you from missing important communications. This Fitbit Versa fitness tracker stays powered on for more than four days between charges.

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I wanted to love it, but...

Posted 10 months ago

IzDoodle

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This smart watch is not so smart. My Samsung GearFit Pro 2 had issues so after seeing this was coming out I was excited to try something new. I had high hopes for this watch but almost as soon as I got it I found that it was one disappointment after another.
It's a beautiful watch, with the limited edition band and the eye catching design. It was one of the biggest things that appealed to me since I have struggled to find a functioning Android watch that wasn't too masculine. However, it felt cheap and plastic once you got your hands on it. The woven limited edition band is a pain to put on and while not uncomfortable, it's not the best material on your skin.
As far as a smartwatch, it fails at everything else. It didn't want to sync correctly and after fighting with pairing for a while my notifications didn't work. Unsyncing and syncing it again worked but then I got 2 notifications instead of 1. I had to start all over again to get it to notify me correctly.
You can't accept/reject calls, you can't send quick texts, it doesn't pair up with your alarms to allow you to dismiss or snooze them from your wrist. It is very limited in what banks it uses for Fitbit pay, even though I paid $30 more for the LE to have that feature and it basically was for nothing. The watch faces are super limited and you can only download 1 at a time, unlike having options to switch around like on my GearFit.
The notifications (once they finally worked right) were a disaster. They were hard to really understand and follow correctly as they notifications panel was all thrown together with no real order or user friendly panel. If you got a text with a picture attached then you could't view the picture, just that an "image" had been sent.
What this watch does well, when it syncs like it's supposed to, is track your health. The steps are mostly accurate and there are tons of great apps to help you keep up with all of your health tracking needs. That's it. Since I have a Note 8 I didn't have access to the app that does personalized workouts for you which was also a cool selling point that was a total fail for me.
I read there were updates coming, and I totally understand a new device has it's bugs and issues, but there were way too many to count and who knows when those updates are coming out and what they will and will not fix. For $230 I expected WAY more than what I got. It seems like the people who were happy with it were coming from fitness trackers and not smartwatches. I can see the appeal there if you don't know any better, but my GearFit, which is supposedly way inferior to the Versa is leaps and bounds ahead of this disaster.
On day 3 I realized I used it as a watch only for the entire day. There was no excitement in me anymore to explore the watch or it's features, only frustration and disappointment. It was then I knew I had to return it.
Overall, I hated the Versa, and that is really hard for me to say since I was so excited for it. The design of the watch was literally the ONLY thing I liked about it, but even that felt cheap and not worth the the money I forked out. It was returned and I went back to a different Samsung device that I am so much happier with. Hopefully Fitbit will get it together with this thing, but I don't have high hopes.

No, I would not recommend this to a friend

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cdavida

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Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

4

Great fitness watch

I’ve been using this Fitbit for close to a month now, and I have really enjoyed using it. The display is nice and bright, and there are a lot of interesting watch faces available. You can use it to track workouts using GPS on your phone (the Ionic is the one with built in GPS), and that’s good enough for me because I don’t go exercising without my phone anyway. It can also get notification from a variety of apps, not just calls, text or calendar, and you can customize which ones you get. It keeps me from missing my wife’s phone calls. There are a limited number of apps that you can install on it as well. You can also set vibrating alarms if you are willing to wear it to bed. Unlike some other Fitbit devices, you set them directly on the watch. The vibration works well to wake me up but not my wife, so I can get up earlier if I want to.
If you pay the extra $30 for the special edition, you can get a mobile payment option if you have a bank card that supports it. It’s nice to have but isn’t supported by a lot of banks. It also comes with both the small and large bands, so you won’t have to worry about buying the wrong one. It’s kind of a pain to change the band, but I was able to do it.
The watch is slightly slow. It’s not painful, but loading your “Today” function to see your stats is not instant. There is a splash screen that you have to wait for when you use an app. Trying to rearrange the apps on the device is possible but painful. The exercise tracking lets you customize what stats it shows, but it never seems to save what you customized for the next time. Also, be careful what watch face you use as some will drain the battery faster, and definitely don’t leave the display on always on with exercise or something open in the FitBit app that may use WiFi. If you do, it will suck the battery life down quickly. It’s possible to get 4 or more days out of a single charge.
Still, overall, I’m happy with this and would definitely recommend it for someone wanting a smart watch but not wanting to go for something more expensive.

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geepondy

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Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

2

Great watch with one unforgivable flaw...

This is a very solid fitness watch (not to be confused with a smart watch). The fitbit app and dashboard is solid and very insightful where you can gleam as little or as much exercise information as you want. The watch itself (I got the SE version) and band is very lightweight and comfortable. I did not try any music or extra apps as frankly the screen is so small, it's much less painful to run these apps via my iphone. So as far as monitoring and reporting exercise parameters (it would auto recognize when I did walking, running and elliptical exercises), the watch worked as expected but there was a fatal flaw that myself and from viewing their Versa support page, many others have experienced. When you leave the Versa on the charger overnight, you will sometimes wake up in the morning to find you have accumulated several thousand unaccounted for mystery steps during the night. Mine gave me 9,000 plus one night, 10,000 plus another but was fine (0 steps) on another. There was no external vibrating sources to account for the steps and indeed when viewing the step graph, they are unaccounted for but are there just the same. I might be able to accept some limitations but this type of failure on a core function is unacceptable and regretfully I had to return the watch. Perhaps in the future they will fix this failure that myself and many other's have experienced and I can try the watch again but for now, I cannot recommend the watch.

No, I would not recommend this to a friend

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Hawk

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Member

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

4

Amazing, but apps need improvement

I was out of state in Montana when I bought my watch, the Best Buy there was amazing and so helpful. I went to buy the Fitbit Versa without Fitbit pay, it’s what I budgeted for. But when I arrived at Best Buy they only had the special edition. So I thank them and was going to leave, but they helped me out being that I was only in town for a week. They brought the special edition down to the price of the normal one since they didn’t have that one in stock. I did want the special edition but I honestly couldn’t justify the extra cost to myself. So thank you Best Buy!
On to the watch it does take about 30 mins to set up, but it tells you up front about that so I was ready for that. I absolutely love the watch faces and how simple and how LOUD(detailed) they can be. The option of apps is great and being able to move them around to organize or remove them is wonderful. Although I do find that the water log app needs improvement I have to be in my Fitbit app for it to update(refresh) on my watch. Not a big deal but inconvenient at times. Other then that it’s been absolutely amazing I love it much better then my Blaze and that says something as I loved my blaze.
I find the watch battery to be about 4 days maybe 4.5 days. It charges fast as well about 20 to 40 mins to fully charge from 1/2 battery. My watch hit 50% battery after 2.5 days of wearing it from full charge. I turn off my sync all day to save battery not only on my watch but in my phone.
NOTE: the nick on my watch in the pic is my screen protector I have on my watch. I bought it separately and I always put screen protectors on my watches for this reason. I’m such a klutz and always hitting my hand/wrist on things.

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Hhtown

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Elite Member

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

4

Really keeps me motivated

Posted 2 months ago

Hhtown

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Elite Member

This is a great product. It has a few set backs because it's not easy to personalize your music and you have to pay for it. However, the music on the app itself is pretty good. And you can turn the music off and run another app from your phone for the music. (Require s ur phone to be with you).I got the Fitbit coach subscription and really love the workouts. They are very challenging. Switching from monthly to yearly subscripyltion was a pain in the butt though. But, it does what I want. It keeps me motivated, reminds me not to be a couch potato and challenges me with the workouts. Lost 10 lbs in 3 months! I can actually do normal push ups and a whole bunch of other exercises I never heard of. The app will keep track of all kinds of things like your calorie intake, calories burned, monthly cycle and more. I even used it in the pool to swim laps. And, yes, it really OVERESTIMATES your calorie burn so you can't rely on that too much. (Don't run out and eat a Bigmac Just because it says you burned 500 calories!) But, you can keep track of how hard you're working and some common sense to lose the weight and get in shape. Oh, and 1 more thing, the lavender band is NOT for working out--it's just for style. I switched mine out the minute I read that and haven't switched it back because changing the band is not easy and if you work out on the regular, who has the time to be playing with the band. I actually liked the black band more anyway. So, you might want to save your money and forgo any other colors other than the basics.

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Cedy13

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars

1

A great start to a letdown

I absolutely loved this watch when I first bought it. I'm a runner so I wanted to upgrade my alta to keep better track of my workouts. I bought the special edition, like I said loved it. I used it pretty much for only fitness not really for the smart watch aspect. Worked perfect for 2 months and a day I literally bought it April 17 and it started acting up June 18. Problems first started with the touchscreen only the 1 4 7 wanted to work then the whole screen wouldn't recognize any touch which is a problem when you have the device lock because of it having my credit card info on it. I couldn't even turn off the device lock on my phone because it wouldn't sync to my phone and kept saying it was having bluetooth issues. I went to best buy to see if geeksquad could look at it at least since it wasn't very old at all and they wouldn't even do anything more than look at my information on the computer to tell me I didnt buy the added protection plan or accept it for a return. I called the fitbit company itself hoping they'd have an idea to help or would let me send it in to be fixed, they had me send an email with a video and came number written in the video to verify authenticity and I still haven't received any indication that they've even started working on a solution. Well needless to say after the initial problem the versa locked up completely, wouldn't charge, and is sitting in the box it came in because its completely worthless now and I'm back to wearing my alta. Needless to say the first fitbit I'm really disappointed in and disappointed with best buy and fitbit to not make it right at all considering how much the watch itself costs.

No, I would not recommend this to a friend

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DonB

Verified Purchase

Elite Member

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

4

Just what I needed

There are many features that I like but one feature that's a great improvement over the Fitbit Charge that I can easily read the time. In addition, I can now have my iPhone on silent and the watch vibrates to tell me that I have a message or call and it tells me from who. And, I can easily read message received from my IPhone. Also, I like the idea of the watch giving me a nudge to get up and move if I have been inactive too long. If you set things up properly (which is easy to do) you get a weekly summary of activity. All the things I need to encourage me to get out there and try to do more. Last but not least, I got this watch/activity tracker because it is waterproof and I can take it into the pool when I do laps.
I only rated it 4 stars because I'm still working on understanding some aspects of the FitBit Versa. Specifically, you are able to transfer songs from your phone to the watch/tracker so you don't need to have your phone present to listen to music. The transfer of music was fairly simply (easy to follow online instructions). While connecting the Bluetooth earbuds to the watch was fairly easy (i.e., watched youtube instructions), the fact that I use the same earbuds for my iPhone causes a little bit of confusion for me that I'm still working out. However, once I understand how this work, I'm confident there will be no problems in the future. Enjoy!!

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ExploreWhatMatters

Verified Purchase

Member

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

2

Quite disappointed

I am a big watch person, and I rarely take my watches off. Initially, I got the Fitbit Charge 2 and LOVED it from day one. my only issue with this watch was the fact that it was not waterproof. So after a while of owning the Charge 2, I decided to get the Versa. Don't get me wrong, it gets the job done by telling the time, counting steps, and keeping heart rate. Overall, I do not see a difference in the basic functionality of what a Fitbit is supposed to achieve.
I was looking for something more along the lines of a smartwatch. The different watch faces are awesome but know that some designs cost money. Nothing too crazy, only a couple dollars. On the bright side, I have not seen one that has a recurring charge. Obviously, the more interactive the face, the lower battery life will be, but most of the faces even basic have horrible battery life.
Of course, I had to have the Special Edition that was compatible with Fitbit pay. Come to find out, my bank does not support Fitbit pay. I have not used this feature once! This is my biggest complaint. I use Apple pay (from my phone) at every opportunity. So the fact that I paid extra for a feature I cant use really bums me out. before spending the extra money PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU FINANCIAL INSTITUTION SUPPORTS FITBIT PAY.
If you are looking to upgrade to the Versa because of the smartwatch capabilities, don't. I really recommend waiting for something better to come out.

Best answer: You get two sizes with the upgraded version. They are the same size as the rubber ones. Definitely but the upgraded one-bands are quick drying and so much nicer than the rubber. Plus you can use the Tap and Pay.